Please Remember Me

Chapter 30

Third P.O.V

Ukraine was bewildered. Russia almost never got mad at him, much less shoved him. "Russia?" Ukraine felt puzzled and worried. Belarus was just as shocked as Ukraine, she was speechless. "Why didn't you tell me?" Russia asked as if he had been betrayed by a close ally. In a way, he had.

Belarus noticed some people giving them a few weird glances. She didn't want to make a scene in public and she was certain her brothers didn't want that too. "Hey, why don't we head inside first?" Belarus suggested nervously. "Yeah, let's go." Ukraine agreed and quickly walked inside, Russia and Belarus following close behind.

After Belarus closed the door behind them, they continued where they had left off. "Russia, what did I not tell you? Did I do anything wrong?" He asked, sounding just as clueless as earlier. "Yes. In fact, both of you did." Russia let his betrayed eyes glare at Ukraine to Belarus. "You both hid something from me that I should've known."

It was when Russia said that when Ukraine and Belarus thought they knew what he was be talking about. But it couldn't be possible, there was no way he could've found out. None of their friends could have been in contact with him since they found his phone in the woods as well so there was no way anybody could've told him.

"Russia, calm down. Maybe this is all just some misunderstanding." Belarus suggested in a gentle voice, refusing to believe that he knew about the one thing they had wanted him to never remember again.

Russia gritted his teeth. It wasn't some misunderstanding. It all made sense now, why he was afraid of the dark, why he started panicking outside that room when he was at the school with America, why he saw those colours. The room was dark. That room was where he witnessed death and nearly experienced it. Those colours were the colours of their flags and the crimson red blood.

He couldn't hold his anger back any longer. "Misunderstanding? Sure, the fact that both of you and everybody else who I trusted kept it a secret from me that I was nearly murdered is a misunderstanding! Totally."

Ukraine took a step back while Belarus just stared in shock. Their worst fear had come true. "H-how did you find out?" Ukraine asked, feeling anxious. He had never seen Russia this furious before. "Does that really matter? You hid something I should've known long ago from me!"

Ukraine tried to explain to Russia, to try to make him understand. "We wanted to tell you, Russia. But whenever we tried to bring it up, you started freaking out and getting headaches. We were worried about how you would react when we told you the whole truth so in the end we decided to keep it as secret. For your sake."

Russia still didn't feel any better. "My sake? MY sake? Do you know how long I spent wondering why so many things which I knew nothing about seemed so familiar or important to me? How frustrated I was at myself? How badly I wanted to know what I was missing? And now I find out that you two and all the others knew what I wanted to know all along and yet you all refused to tell me. Did you really think the pain of the headaches and panic would be greater than the pain of leaving me in the dark?"

Neither Ukraine nor Belarus knew what to say. They had never considered that hiding what had happened would cause Russia to feel so much betrayal. "Russia, we're sorry. We didn't know that our actions would hurt you this much." Belarus said apologetically. What else was there that she or Ukraine could say?

Russia looked down towards the side as his expression saddened. "Saying sorry won't change anything."

USSR, hearing someone shouting, came out to see what was happening. He wanted to wait for Russia outside the house with Ukraine and Belarus, but the both of them assured him that it would be fine and that he should continue doing his work. Now, he wasn't so sure. "What is going on here?" He asked. Although he wasn't answered, he could guess from how dejected each one of his children looked that something went wrong.